slight (n.)
- affront
- airy
- ascetic
- bantam
- blink
- breakable
- brittle
- cheap-jack
- coldness
- culpa
- cut
- dainty
- default
- delinquency
- dereliction
- diminutive
- dinky
- discount
- discredit
- disdain
- disgrace
- disregard
- disrespect
- dodge
- empty
- failure
- fat
- fine
- flimsy
- frail
- fudge
- gimcrack
- gossamer
- half-pint
- humiliation
- idle
- ignore
- ill-treatment
- inadvertence
- inadvertency
- inattention
- indifference
- indignity
- infinitesimal
- insult
- jerry
- knee-high
- knock
- lacy
- lapse
- laxity
- laxness
- lean
- light
- lightweight
- limited
- little
- looseness
- mean
- miniature
- minor
- minute
- miss
- namby-pamby
- narrow
- neglect
- neglectfulness
- negligence
- noncompliance
- nonconformance
- nonconformity
- nonfeasance
- noninterference
- nonobservance
- nonperformance
- off
- omission
- omit
- outrage
- outside
- overlook
- overpass
- oversight
- permissiveness
- petite
- poky
- poor
- procrastination
- rare
- rebuff
- remissness
- repulse
- scamp
- scant
- scanty
- scoff
- scorn
- scout
- shallow
- shoal
- short
- silly
- skim
- skip
- slackness
- slim
- slur
- small
- sneer
- sniff
- snort
- snub
- spare
- starvation
- subsistence
- surface
- thin
- tiny
- trace
- trifling
- trite
- two-by-four
- vague
- vain
- weak
- wee
slight (v.)
- affront
- attenuate
- belittle
- blink
- brittle
- cold-shoulder
- contemn
- cut
- debase
- decry
- default
- degrade
- depreciate
- deride
- despise
- dilute
- diminish
- discount
- discredit
- disdain
- disgrace
- dismiss
- disparage
- disregard
- disrespect
- dodge
- empty
- fail
- fat
- feeble
- fine
- flout
- forget
- fudge
- idle
- ignore
- insult
- knock
- lapse
- lean
- light
- little
- mean
- minimize
- minor
- minute
- miss
- mortify
- narrow
- neglect
- off
- offend
- omit
- outrage
- outside
- overlook
- pooh-pooh
- rebuff
- repulse
- scamp
- scant
- scoff
- scorn
- scout
- scrimp
- shallow
- shoal
- short
- skim
- skimp
- skip
- slim
- slur
- sneer
- sniff
- snort
- snub
- spare
- spurn
- surface
- thin
- tiny
- trace
- vain
- weak
- wee
slight (adj.)
- abstemious
- adulterated
- airy
- ankle-deep
- ascetic
- asinine
- attenuate
- attenuated
- austere
- bantam
- boyish
- breakable
- brittle
- catchpenny
- cobwebby
- cramped
- crumbly
- cursory
- cut
- dainty
- delicate
- diaphanous
- dilute
- diluted
- diminutive
- dinky
- dwarfish
- effeminate
- empty
- epidermal
- ethereal
- exiguous
- fat
- fatuous
- feeble
- fine
- finespun
- flimsy
- foolish
- fragile
- frail
- frangible
- frivolous
- frothy
- frugal
- futile
- gaseous
- gauzy
- gimcrack
- girlish
- gossamer
- gracile
- idle
- impoverished
- inadequate
- inane
- inconsequential
- infinitesimal
- insecure
- insignificant
- insubstantial
- jejune
- jerry-built
- knee-deep
- knock
- lacy
- laissez-faire
- lean
- light
- lightweight
- limited
- little
- meager
- mean
- miniature
- minor
- minute
- miserly
- miss
- misty
- namby-pamby
- narrow
- negligible
- niggardly
- off
- one-horse
- otiose
- outside
- overlooking
- paltry
- papery
- parsimonious
- perceptible
- petite
- piddling
- pint-sized
- pocket-sized
- poky
- poor
- precarious
- puny
- rare
- rarefied
- reedy
- rickety
- scant
- scanty
- scrawny
- scrimpy
- shallow
- short
- silly
- sissified
- skim
- skimpy
- skin-deep
- sleazy
- slender
- slim
- small
- smallish
- snub
- spare
- sparing
- stingy
- stinted
- stunted
- subtle
- superficial
- surface
- svelte
- sylphlike
- tacky
- tenuous
- thin
- thin-bodied
- thinned
- threadlike
- tiny
- trifling
- trite
- trivial
- twiggy
- unlikely
- unstable
- unsubstantial
- vacuous
- vague
- vain
- vapid
- vaporous
- wasp-waisted
- watered
- watery
- weak
- wee
- willowy
- windy
- wispy
- womanish
Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favours call;
She comes unlooked for if she comes at all.
'T is slight, not strength, that gives the greatest lift.
Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.
